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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Modern Unix tools
  linux unix
  Comments
• tomnomnom/gron - Make JSON greppable
  programming
  Comments
• How the K-line got its name: history of IRC daemon configuration
  historical
  Comments
• v0.16 - Gleam compiles to JavaScript
  erlang javascript release
  Comments
• Pwning Home Router - Linksys WRT54G
  reversing security
  Comments
• Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars
  crypto graphics
  Comments
• cariboulabs/cariboulite - turn any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR
  hardware
  Comments
• Explaining Code using ASCII Art (2019)
  programming
  Comments
• Designing a Better strcpy
  c
  Comments
• Apple M1, three months later
  mac
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.53.0
  release rust
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• ASCIIFlow diagram tool
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I no longer contribute to Racket
  lisp person
  Comments
• bliss(v2), a library for making audio playlists
  audio show rust
  Comments
• Big Time Public License 1.0.0
  law
  Comments
• My EC2 wishlist
  freebsd
  Comments
• Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release
  freebsd linux mac
  Comments
• OpenPGP.js: OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
  browsers crypto javascript
  Comments
• When it comes to git history, less is more
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Mu's neighborhood
  security
  Comments
• Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2
  crypto reversing
  Comments
• The Oddest Place You Will Ever Find PAC
  hardware security
  Comments
• Designing data access layer, pt. I
  databases
  Comments
• Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5
  dotnet
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ripgrep 13.0.0 released
  release rust
  Comments
• Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library
  rust security
  Comments
• Sick of the stupid jokes? Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math library
  javascript math
  Comments
• Comment the Why *and* the What
  practices
  Comments
• Writing fast async HTTP requests in Python
  python web
  Comments
• Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
  programming
  Comments
• Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free?
  linux mac
  Comments
• Untapped potential in Rust’s type system
  plt rust
  Comments
• Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  c++ crypto
  Comments
• Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL
  databases
  Comments
• dida - differential dataflow for mere mortals
  show databases zig
  Comments
• Linux with "memory folios": a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• the end of freenode
  culture historical
  Comments
• Why 4:54 is the perfect speedrun - Super Mario Bros. World Record Speedrun Explained
  video games reversing
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• A Trivial, Dangerous, False Assumption on Links
  security web
  Comments
• Prolog Heritage
  plt
  Comments
• Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?
  c
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Retrogaming: My first Z80 assembly language program
  assembly games historical
  Comments
• Pinebook Pro Arch Linux Alternative
  linux
  Comments
• Should we be concerned that the decisions of AIs are inscrutable?
  ai
  Comments
• Adventures in fuzzing libolm
  distributed security
  Comments
• HotOS 2021: Cores That Don’t Count (Fun Hardware)
  video hardware
  Comments
• Exploit a binary with SigReturn Oriented Programming (SROP)
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
  security
  Comments
• Using Paper for Everyday Tasks
  practices
  Comments
• Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer
  c programming
  Comments
• Taildrop was kind of easy, actually
  networking
  Comments
• Decoding the signal from 1988 Videophone
  reversing
  Comments
• Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb’s variations
  privacy
  Comments
• IRC Bot in bash: neo8ball
  show programming
  Comments
• Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice
  rust
  Comments
• Sizedness in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• My favourite C++ footgun
  c++
  Comments
• Debian Bullseye Full Freeze starts on 2021-07-17
  linux
  Comments
• Issue 38980: Compile libpython with -fno-semantic-interposition
  performance python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gemini is Useless
  philosophy rant web
  Comments
• Open Source and Mental Health
  person
  Comments
• Multicore OCaml: May 2021
  compilers ml
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• Toward Vagrant 3.0
  devops go ruby virtualization
  Comments
• SSH quoting
  linux unix
  Comments
• Can memcpy be implemented in LLVM IR?
  compilers
  Comments
• 50 Years of Text Games: Curses
  games
  Comments
• In-browser, open source data IDE for developers
  show databases web
  Comments
• Demystify SwiftUI
  video ios mac swift
  Comments
• A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
  security
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• Unintentional forensic edit logs via font changes
  email security
  Comments
• The Fixed Point: Recursion, Laziness, and Haskell's fix function
  haskell
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders
  practices
  Comments
• Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug
  linux security
  Comments
• Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes
  plt
  Comments
• Why Gemini is not my favorite internet protocol
  rant web
  Comments
• How Microsoft Lost the API War (2004)
  api historical practices windows
  Comments
• epoll(2) implemented in kqueue(2)
  c linux
  Comments
• Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
  debugging go
  Comments
• ALiEn - Explore the world of artificial life
  ai games
  Comments
• How to move a 400-person hackathon online
  event haskell
  Comments
• Increasing the density of the home lab with FreeBSD Jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• Memoize Commands or Bash Functions with Coprocs
  linux programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Float Exposed
  math programming
  Comments
• Rocket Web Framework v0.5 Release Candidate
  rust
  Comments
• The most useful math formulas
  graphics math programming
  Comments
• Graphs
  math
  Comments
• Obfuscating "Hello world!"
  python
  Comments
• FP vs. OO
  programming
  Comments
• Notes on the HotOS Unix Shell Panel
  event programming unix
  Comments
• The memory models that underlie programming languages
  c databases fortran lisp unix
  Comments
• Good and Bad Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• PicoVGA - VGA/TV display on Raspberry Pico
  graphics hardware
  Comments
• RISC-V Adventures II: hex0
  assembly
  Comments
• kcgi: securing CGI web applications (2015)
  pdf c security web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Always be quitting
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Your `~/.bashrc` doesn't have to be a mess
  unix
  Comments
• Glue: the Dark Matter of Software
  compsci
  Comments
• Mypy 0.900 Released
  plt python release
  Comments
• myawk: shell/AWK/Perl-like scripting in OCaml
  ml programming unix
  Comments
• Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together
  go plt rust
  Comments
• ALPACA Attack
  crypto security
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• I wrote a linker everyone can understand
  assembly
  Comments
• Don’t stall your burnout recovery
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• All "Tag Suggestions" with more than 20 votes
  meta
  Comments
• M2 release of Unison - FP language with content-addressable code
  programming
  Comments
• The Plan for React 18
  javascript
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My Homelab Build
  devops linux
  Comments
• The shortest domain name possible? http://pn/
  networking web
  Comments
• Althttpd: The Althttpd Webserver
  c web
  Comments
• Kalyn: a self-hosting compiler for x86-64
  compilers haskell lisp plt
  Comments
• Vim Kōans
  education
  Comments
• A simple thing
  unix
  Comments
• GPT-3 Scared You? Meet Wu Dao 2.0: A Monster of 1.75 Trillion Parameters
  ai
  Comments
• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key-Value Store
  pdf databases
  Comments
• My programming setup
  programming
  Comments
• Finding Closure in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Monterey? BTDT. Try Project Monterey
  historical osdev
  Comments
• Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
  debugging practices
  Comments